Unit 5 Reading: Fiction Reading

Timeframe:
DPS Calendar

Big Ideas:

Narrative structure and features (character and settings; conflict, problem & solution)
Comprehension strategies
Drawing conclusions

Lesson
Intended Learning
1
Identify features that are unique to fiction by comparing fiction and nonfiction texts.
2
Use Thunder Cake and add character, setting and plot to our list in lesson 1.
3
Reinforce character, setting and plot to make connections.
4
Use attributes of character to learn about the character (protagonist)
5
Find evidence in the text to support what we think about a character (how they change over time)
6
Explore how characters change and that conflict often leads to change.
7
Conflict: person against nature; how characters change
8
Conflict: person against person; how characters change
9
Conflict: person against society; how characters change
10
Conflict: person against self; how characters change
11
Strategy: Stop and Ask Questions
12
Predicting to build meaning and access background information
13
Stop and ask questions to help with inferring.
14
Make inferences to deepen understanding of story details and main idea.
15
Generating inferences to explain character.
16
Uses inferences to explain characters and images related to character, setting, and plot.
17
Using story elements to increase analytical thinking.
18
Compare and contrast fantasy fiction character, setting, and plot.
19
Identify elements of realistic fiction to locate main idea and supporting details.
20
Locate main idea and supporting details in historical fiction.
21
Locate main idea and supporting details in historical fiction.
22
Identify important and supporting details in text to develop summaries.
23
Locate main idea and supporting details in historical fiction,
24
Locate main idea and supporting details in historical fiction.
25
Identify important and supporting details in text to develop summaries.









Essential Learning:
Students will be able to use narrative structure, including character, setting, plot, problem or conflict, and solution, to support comprehension, make predictions, and understand text.

Important events, ideas, details. Bringing the information together in concise form. Take information from the text and making it their own. Essential information. Telling a story (recounting as many details as you can). Summarizing involves selecting information and forming a concise statement.


Proficiency:
Students will be able to identify narrative story elements and will be able to utilize them to comprehend text.

Students will define a summary to include: a topic sentence, essential elements (characters, problem, and solution) in sequence that is concise and in their own words and will able to write summary with these characteristics.




Assessment:

Date
Step A: Preparing for
the Data Team Process

Step 1
Collect & Chart Data

Step 2
Analyze Strengths
& Obstacles

Step 3
Establish Goals:
Set, Review, Revise

Step 4
Select
Instructional Strategies

Step 5
Determine
Results Indicators

Next Steps




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Obstacles: Being concise. Does it make sense? Dependent upon story map.

Strengths: Can recognize story elements. Able to plan.

Using a story map.
"We do..."" over and over again.

Assessments are valuable.
















1/26



Kendra: 7%-64%
Barb: 0%-71%



1/12
Refined our definition of proficiency.





Score pre-assessments according to the definition of proficiency in red.
12/1






Finish charting the intended learnings for this unit.